Cnut made me ealdorman, that so I might serve East Anglia, and I am glad, for I must needs go to the great witan at times and meet Godwine and Relf and many others who are my friends.

But, rather than Redwald the ealdorman, I would that I might be called ever by the name which comes into the songs of Ottar the scald now and then--the name in which I have most pride, King Olaf's kinsman.
THE END.
Notes.
1 the armed followers of a Saxon noble.
2 The national weapon.

A short, strong, curved blade used as a dirk.
3 The massacre of the Danes on St.Brice's day, 1002 A.D., in which Swein's sister was killed.
4 Now Peterborough.
5 From the Heimskringla, Saga of Olaf the Saint.
6 Tribute.
7 An embodied familiar spirit.
8 According to Bede, in A.D.418 the Romans collected and hid all the treasure in England, except some part which they took to Gaul.

OElla took Anderida in 491 A.D.
9 The cold spring.
10 Mail shirt.
11 Daughter of Alfred the Great, and wife of Ethelred, Earl of Mercia.
12 The utmost term of Saxon contempt.
13 Now Canewdon.
14 The "Five Boroughs" of the old Danelagh were Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham, Stamford, and Derby.
15 The work of the great Dunstan, and the first code that recognized the rights of Danish settlers.
16 This prophecy of Olaf's is recorded in the "Saga of Olaf the Saint"..